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EagleRidge Energy is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of oil and gas exploration services. EagleRidge Energy is involved in various aspects of oil and gas drilling, including salt water disposal.

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EagleRidge Energy is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of oil and gas exploration services. EagleRidge Energy is involved in various aspects of oil and gas drilling, including salt water disposal.

Over the course of oil and gas extraction processes, water is produced. In fact, between three to five barrels of water are created for every one barrel of oil produced. The composition of this water, referred to as salt water, features a particulate that can damage the pumps responsible for carrying the water into salt water disposal (SWD) wells.

With this in mind, oil and gas operations are strongly encouraged to invest in effective filtration systems. Screen filters provide several advantages over bag filters. Bag filters must be repaired and replaced frequently, a process that requires manual labor and constant work stoppages.

SWD wells are subject to a number of environmental agency regulations, though specific regulations vary by region and well type. That said, all salt water must undergo some form of treatment prior to being injected into a well. Treatment processes have been designed not only to protect the surrounding environment, but also to enhance oil production efficiency and minimize costs.

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EagleRidge Energy is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of oil and gas exploration services. EagleRidge Energy is involved in various aspects of oil and gas drilling, including salt water disposal. Over the course of oil and gas extraction processes, water is produced. In fact, between three to five barrels of water are created for every one barrel of oil produced.

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Combined, natural gas and crude oil account for 68 percent of the United States’ energy supply. What they are derived from is common knowledge: long-dead creatures subjected to heat, pressure, time. These primary energy sources create consumable products like electricity and manufactured goods. Given how essential they are to industrialized nations and growing concerns regarding their scarcity, you may be interested in taking a deeper dive into their composition, the process of their creation, and what properties separate the two.

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Combined, natural gas and crude oil account for 68 percent of the United States' energy supply. What they are derived from is common knowledge: long-dead creatures subjected to heat, pressure, time. These primary energy sources create consumable products like electricity and manufactured goods. Given how essential they are to industrialized nations and growing concerns regarding their scarcity, you may be interested in taking a deeper dive into their composition, the process of their creation, and what properties separate the two.

Oil and natural gas re chemically similar, mostly made up of molecules that contain differing ratios of hydrogen and carbon atoms, commonly referred to as hydrocarbons. The exact structure of each resource depends on where they are extracted from, but weightier, more complex hydrocarbons like pentadecane form the bulk of crude oil. Crude oil is denser than the gasses refined from it like propane and butane, but less dense than water, meaning it floats. This property, married with its hydrophobic - water repulsive - nature, makes oil spills spread rapidly and prove difficult to contain.

Natural gas, on the other hand, contains simple, light molecules like methane. For comparison, pentadecane contains 15 carbon atoms and 32 hydrogen atoms while methane has one single carbon atom accompanied by four hydrogen atoms. Natural gas burns much cleaner than oil despite coming from the same family due to this lighter composition. It also puts around 30 percent less carbon dioxide into the air.

There is a classroom myth about oil barrels and pipelines tapping into what used to be dinosaurs, but fossil fuels were fixed into the ground long before the first Tyrannosaurus rex emerged from its shell. Plankton, precursor plant species, and an array of single-celled organisms comprise fossil fuels.

The leap from living thing to black gold is a long string of chemical changes that begins when sand, mud, or sediment covers partially decayed matter. The inorganic components mix and block the matter off from air, halting its decomposition. A combination of tectonic movement and rock formation over millions of years follows.

The halfway point between a commercially desirable fossil fuel and its raw components takes the form of rough sedimentary material known as kerogen. People can still use the kerogen that doesn't get buried deep enough to become crude oil or natural gas, but the material is difficult to work with and not as profitable.

For the clumps of kerogen that do make the journey further down, proximity to the Earth's core provides the pressure and heat required to refine the material. At temperatures between 150 and 220 degrees Celsius, it becomes natural gas, while oil forms at a comparatively cooler range of 100 degrees Celsius to just below 150 degrees.

In nature, the amount of organic matter that becomes fossil fuel depends on luck and placement, resulting in far fewer deposits than there could have been. Experts have enough knowledge of the process to produce synthetic versions of oil and natural gas in days or months. The only limiting factor is the energy efficiency of the technology used, and the difficulty of cultivating materials like food waste, algae, and bacteria into proper fuel.

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Combined, natural gas and crude oil account for 68 percent of the United States' energy supply. What they are derived from is common knowledge: long-dead creatures subjected to heat, pressure, time. These primary energy sources create consumable products like electricity and manufactured goods.

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Discovered by geologists in the early 20th century, the Barnett Shale is a geological formation that produces hydrocarbons.. Comprised of sedimentary rock, the productive portion of the formation encompasses 5,000 square miles and at least 17 counties. The formation’s name comes from the Barnett Stream, named after John W. Barnett, a 19th-century settler in San Saba County.